Does anyone know how to use Finale (maybe with a 3rd party plugin?) to do this?:
1. Select all the notes in a Finale document below C1?
a. Or - at least select all the notes in a staff that are below C1…
2 And then change all the selected notes to be “hidden”?
That way, my keyswitches can play in Finale without being seen in the printed score.
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I almost always import a MIDI file, rather than enter notes one at a time in Finale. If I had to enter KS by hand, I would just hide them when I entered them. Picking the keyswitches a measure at a time and hiding them is not a solution for me. Especially in an orchestral score with ~28 staves! Ugh! THis is the kind of repetitive, rule-based work that computers are good at…
Hiding All Keyswitches - A Global Search and Hide?
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Thanks for the FAST response! JW change is soooo close to what I need.
BUT it does not allow you to specify the PITCH of the note to be hidden. (Unless I missed something?)
You can select all notes based on a rule, rather than one by one, which is what I need. But the plugin specifies what note will be selected by where the note is in relation to the bar, or another note.
Dozens of ways to specify a note - but not by its...pitch!
That's one of my favorite things about a note - its pitch!
Maybe JW has another tool for that...?
BUT it does not allow you to specify the PITCH of the note to be hidden. (Unless I missed something?)
You can select all notes based on a rule, rather than one by one, which is what I need. But the plugin specifies what note will be selected by where the note is in relation to the bar, or another note.
Dozens of ways to specify a note - but not by its...pitch!
That's one of my favorite things about a note - its pitch!
Maybe JW has another tool for that...?
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Instead of adding notes for keyswitches, you can create non-printing expressions that send keyswitches, controllers, etc.
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Win10 x64, 32GB RAM, Focusrite Scarlett 18i20
Kontakt, VSL VI Pro, VE Pro, EWQL Orch, Choirs and Pianos
August Foster 190
You are right, and Finale 27 has lots of capability for this. But as I mentioned in my original post, I do not enter notes in Finale - I import Midi files from Digital Performer.
I have been thinking about the suggestion to use JW’s plugin - in pieces that do not use 64ty notes, I could change all my KS in DP to 64th notes. Then JW’s plugin would allow a global search of the whole Finale document for all 64th notes and would change them - all at once - into hidden notes.
Meanwhile, I will continue searching for a way to do it all in Finale - search for all notes lower than C1 and hide them all at once.
Have you ever needed to select all the low pitches in a track and hide them?
I have been thinking about the suggestion to use JW’s plugin - in pieces that do not use 64ty notes, I could change all my KS in DP to 64th notes. Then JW’s plugin would allow a global search of the whole Finale document for all 64th notes and would change them - all at once - into hidden notes.
Meanwhile, I will continue searching for a way to do it all in Finale - search for all notes lower than C1 and hide them all at once.
Have you ever needed to select all the low pitches in a track and hide them?